Tamsin Greig to perform in 'La Fille Du Régiment' this summer

The Olivier Award winner and television star will play a comedic speaking role in the Royal Ballet and Opera's limited-run production this July.

Summary

• Tamsin Greig will play the Duchess of Crackenthorp in the Royal Ballet and Opera's La Fille Du Regiment from 7-24 July
• The Duchess is a comedic speaking role

Award-winning stage and screen star Tamsin Greig has joined the cast of the Royal Ballet and Opera's La Fille Du Régiment, running at the Royal Opera House for seven performances only from 7-24 July.

Greig is an Olivier Award winner for Much Ado About Nothing, nominee for The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and TV star known for her roles as Dr Caroline Todd in Green Wing (RTS Award for Best Actress) and Jackie Goodman in Friday Night Dinner, among numerous other roles.

In La Fille Du Regiment, she plays the Duchess of Crackenthorp, a comedic speaking role previously performed by Dawn French and others.

“I’m thrilled and honoured to have been invited to join The Royal Opera in Laurent Pelly’s exceptional production of Donizetti’s comic opera La Fille du Régiment," Greig said in a statement. "I am deeply excited to be working with these fabulous singers, musicians and production team, and equally daunted and giddy to be performing in French.”

The cast also includes Sara Blanch, who makes her Royal Opera debut as Marie; Juan Diego Flórez and Jonah Hoskins alternating as Tonio; Paolo Bordogna as Sulpice Pingot; Sonia Ganassi as La Marquise de Berkenfield and Donald Maxwell as Hortensius.

Yves Abel conducts Donizetti's opera, a romantic comedy about a woman who grew up in an army regiment and falls in love with a local villager, but must fight for their love when her aunt takes her away to life a more noble life.

Book La Fille Du Regiment tickets on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

Photo credit: Tamsin Greig. (Photo courtesy of production)